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Tag: Football
All eyes on Brickstand
Chris Smith, the man behind Brickstand, has been generating a bit of media attention of late for his ambition to build all 92 English Football League grounds out of LEGO. You may have caught some of Chris’ work through his website or when on display at any of the LEGO events he has attended, such…
Origins: Sports
The LEGO Group and sports have had an… interesting history. In the early 2000s, as the company flailed around trying to find something, anything that would sell, the designers took a stab at playable sports sets. Most of them were released in the years around the LEGO Group’s brush with bankruptcy, so the quality of many of these sets is lacking. This week…
71014 LEGO DFB Series Distribution
The exclusive 71014 LEGO DFB Series is released this week in Germany, Austria and Switzerland but some retailers have released them early and some how a LUG in Singapore has managed to obtain a box and have revealed the box distribution as shown below. So from the breakdown, we can all see that if you buy…
#ThrowbackThursday – LEGO Football Championship Challenge
We got back to 2000 this week in our regular #throwbackthursday column. The arrival of the German football team series isn’t the first time football (soccer to the uneducated) and LEGO have mixed. There was a short lived theme back at the turn of the century, LEGO teamed up with big brands like Adidas and…
Liverpool FC’s Istanbul homecoming in LEGO
It was one of the greatest games of football ever played – and certainly one of the greatest finals of all time in the UEFA Champions League (née European Cup). I remember falling out of bed at 05h00 as I was living in Melbourne at the time to watch the second half. 2005, Istanbul – and…
Brick 2015 being advertised…….but not where you expect!
I was at Upton Park for my final games at West Ham this season before we move to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium next year. Being an expat, it is just not easy to get back and forth to watch Premier League football, let alone the cost of a ticket. I have many pre-match rituals…
Football grounds in LEGO by Brickstand
The Premiership the source of my talk and comment for most of the weekend to the majority of football fans and fans of football. For me it starts on Thursday getting that Fantasy League team right (never happens – look at Naismith bagging a hat-trick against Chelsea – how many had him in their team this…
